The Penn's Grove record., 1887-06-18
OF THE WEEK

-ClarleS u ONE Vi lHt Oc5l
known men IN Dakota" was indicted
al Pierre. in that Territory. on the Sth,
for stealing cattle.
An accommodation train on the
st, Louis and Hannibal Railroad was
thrown from the track near Frankfort,
| Missouri, on the evening of the 18th.
Two train hands and two women were
injured, a woman named Dickinson
perhaps fatally. A fast west bound
train on the Fort Wayne and Chicago
road ran into a freight train near Col
umbus, Ohio, on the morning of the
9Th. Several freight cars were wrecked
and the passenger engine was nearly
demolished. The engineer jumped of
and had his collar bone broken. The
two rear ears of An express tram going
west, and occupied by excursionists en-
route to California, were thrown from
the track at Pownal Station, Vermont,
on tie evening of the 7th. Twelve
persons were injured, Mrs. S. A. Wells,
of Springfield, Massachusetts, danger
ously.
The dwelling of A. Brown, at
Bedford, Ontario. was burned on the
morning Of the 9Th, and four child
rem, under 10 years of age, lost their
lives.
e. +. Burnside, a physician of
Lebanon, Penna., attempted suicide
at Pottsville on the 11th by swallow
ing morphine. At last accounts his
condition was critical.
In Chattanooga on the afternoon
of the 9th, a tank of gasoline exploded
! on the first floor of a two-stoIy brick
building at II corner or Fourth and
Market stree That building, a two
story buildin. adjoining, occupied on
the first floor by a grocery, and the
Morgan House, a three.story frame
structure, were destroyed by fire.
Henry Her and Matthew Peake, fire.
men, were buried under a falling wall.
The former was killed and the latter
MORALLY wounded. -Four other men
we're dangerously burned by the explo-
sion. The wholesale drug store of
Charles Peasants, on Wooster street,
New York, was damaged on the after
noon of the 9th, by a mysterious ex-
plosion, to the extent of $4,000. The
fire spread so rapidly through the build
lDK tudb IilC ClClho anu SuobOLbClo
narrowly escaped with their lives.
The body of a man found shot
dead at Andover, Massachusetts, on
the 9th. has been identified as that of
Cornelius McClusky, a seaman In the
navy, who was home on ~furlough. 1t
is believed he killed himself, as his
revolver was found neal by. He had
been In the navy since 1861 and done
good service under Farragut.
Frederick Hermann, the fanatic
who murdered his infant child, tried
to kill his wife and cut his own throat,
IN PIttsburg, on the 9th, died IN the
hospital on the morning of the 9th.
His wife is expected to ecover.
"A terrific rain storm visited the
Wyoming Valley On the afternoon of
the 9th. At Nanticoke there was a
''cloud-burst" which deluged streets
to a depth of from WI to four feet,
dislodged several frame dwellings and
upset one. The fires in the boiler house
of the Susquehanna Coal Company
were put out and all work in the mines
were stopped. Nearly two hundred
feet Of the Pennsylvania Railroad road
bed was washed away.
The annual regatta of the New
York Yacht Club took place Oh the
9th. The Atlantic took the lead early
in the race and maintained 1t to the
end. The Shamrock, Priscilla, Galatea,
Sachem, Gitana and others were handI-
capped at the start.
1t is reported from Kansas City,
N9.--t 4hnN nm aaJln rnflrnnA aApn-
pany there has discovered a conspiracy
among its conductors to embezzle fares.
A discharged gripman, named Jlilson,
discovered the cOmbinion of the bell
punches, and rented a room near the
line of the road where the conductors
took their meals. "They would punch
sips until perhaps 100 were registered,
after which they would simply ring the
bell. They would then take the punches
to Jillson, who would open them and
make them correspond with the slip"
SIX conductors confessed and were dis.
charged on the 9Th. Jillson He'd.
The steamship Acacia, for New
Orleans, is ashore near Big Glace Bay,
Nova Scotia. 1t WIS quite clear when
she went ashore, land her officers can
only account for her present position
by her compasses being astray." She
has one compartment full of water.
After being lightened of her cargo
she will be got of.
The First National Bank building
in Pittsburg was damaged by fire on
the morning OIL the 10th TO the extent
of S55. 100, of which S25, coo falls on
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, which occupies the upper floors,
where the fire originated. 1t Is sup
posed the flames were started by the
crossing of wires in the rear of the switch
board. The Fred. J. Meyers Manu-
featuring Conpany's building, in Gov
lngton, Kentucky, was damaged by lire
on the 10th to the extent of $4,000.
The fire is attributed to the %spontane-
Gus combustion Of waste rags.
"A sleeping car of the Buffalo ex-
press train, on the Hudson River Rail-
road, jumped a switch at Spuyten
DuyvIl On the morning of the 10th,
and was upset and wrecked. The o.
c~upants, 20 in number, were severely
iostled and several were bruised. A
passenger train was thrown into a
ditch near Merrill, Michigan, on the
evening of the 9th, and the engine and
baggage car were smashed up. All the
passengers were bruised and three ira n
men were more severely injured.
"A telegram from Wilmington,
Delaware, says the rosebud pest. which
has infested the vineyards and truck
patches of Kent county, for the last
two weeks, has reached its height. The
clear weather of the last two days has
cleared off the grapevines, and the bugs
are gradually leaving the peach and
apple trees.
The coroner's jury investigating
the boiler explosion at Chester, Penna. ,
on the 10th, decided that the explosion
''arose from faults originating in the
manufacture of the boiler plate"
"A railroad hight began IN Indian
apolis on the evening of the 18th. The
Indianapolis, Decatur and Springfield
Company enters the Union passenger
station over the tracks of the Indian
apolls, Cincinnati. st. Louis aud Chi.